A maize Myb homolog is encoded by a multicopy gene complex

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 260, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 372-380

  Chopra, S ^a   Athma, P ^b   Li, X G ^a,c   Peterson, T ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Maize flavonoids; Myb; Tandem repeats; Tissue specific silencing

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA; REPETITIVE DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE NUMBER; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C MYB; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ALLELES; DNA METHYLATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FLAVONOIDS; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; ONCOGENES; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT SHOOTS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; ZEA MAYS;

EMBRYOPHYTA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0031798052     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050906     Document Type: Article

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